Kids Direct - Local information for parents, regarding activities, classes, cinema, theatre, sports and parties.
Cambridge Cycling Campaign - An organisation of volunteers campaigning for the rights of cyclists and promoting cycling in and around the city. Includes newsletters and joining information.
Cambridge Dating - Free membership online dating for singles in Cambridge.
The Russian Speaking Society - A society for persons interested in Russian language and culture. Includes events page and contact details.
Cambridge Humanists - Features a diary, contact details, membership and ceremonies.
Cambridge Rape Crisis Centre - Volunteer-run charity providing confidential support and information to victims of rape.
Arena for Change International - Provides consultancy and undertakes project work in the UK and overseas to promote citizenship, community cohesion and peace-building.
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-- Typewriting exercise A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Society and Culture The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Society and Culture
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Society and Culture "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Society and Culture
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Society and Culture "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Society and Culture
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Society and Culture blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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- H. H. Munro (Saki) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Society and Culture
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Society and Culture Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Society and Culture
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Society and Culture One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Society and Culture We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Society and Culture Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture
